THIRD GRADE
NEWSLETTER
Greencastle Elementary
October 1, 2013
What’s Happening in Third Grade?!
As September comes to an
end, we have much to look
forward to in October!
In reading, students will
work on skills wit h realistic
fiction. Some of those
skills include asking and
answering questions,
characters and their
actions, point of view,
literal and nonliteral word
meanings, using context
clues, and making
inferences. Students will
study how to determine
the central message of a
text, using key details.
Third graders will also work
on skills with informational
text. Some of those skills
include main idea, text
features, and relationship
between events.
In writing, students will
develop their narrative,
informative, and opinion
writing while studying possessives, conjunctions,
adjectives, dialogue, etc.
Students will work on their
speaking and listening skills
throughout writing as well.
In math, students will
focus on addition and
subtraction fluency within
1,000. These skills require
deep understanding of
place value. Math is leading
to area of rectangles,
multiplication, and division.
In science and social
studies, students are
mainly learning about
position and motion of
objects, gravity,
comparisons of speed and
distance of moving objects,
democratic principles,
government leaders, and
the Roman Republic.
Third grade is in its second year with the
new curriculum: Curriculum 2.0. There is
more information available online:
www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/
curriculum/2.0/
All of these content areas
will include a lot of
collaboration and
discussion among
students.
Gifted & Talented News
Parents who are interested in their student applying to the Highly Gifted Center Please
complete applic ation no later than November 8, 2013. Parent information meeting will be held
on October 24 at Wheaton High School.
Please feel free to contact me if you hav e any questions.
April Hayden
GT Coor dinator
Important Dates n the
Month of October...
PTA Meeting 7:00pm
Media Center
10/1
Interim Reports
Distributed to
Students
10/4
PTA Walk Your Child to
School Event 9am
10/9
Fall Portrait Day
10/10
Columbus Day: Open
House 9-11am
10/14
Strengthening Families 10/14
Program Begins 6-8pm
Fall-Into-Books
Celebration
10/31
Special points of
interest:
 Students are
coming home each
night with the
Castle Code of
Character. Please
check and sign
with your child.
Reinforcement at
home is so helpful!
 Students enter
the building at 8:35.
Please have you
child at school
between 8:30 and
8:35.
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newsletter is to develop and write your own
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Wide Web. You can write about a variety
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